Soul Cycle

1970 studio album by Cedar Walton

Soul Cycle

Studio album by

Cedar Walton

Released

1970

Recorded

July 25, 1969
New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

37:24

Label

Prestige
PR 7693

Producer

Don Schlitten

Cedar Walton chronology

The Electric Boogaloo Song
(1969)

Soul Cycle
(1970)

Breakthrough!
(1972)

Soul Cycle is an album by pianist Cedar Walton, which was recorded in 1969 and released on the Prestige label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow stated: "Walton was trying to widen his audience a bit at the time — not a bad goal, except that he felt he had to water down his music on a few of these numbers. A mixed bag".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Cedar Walton, except as indicated

"Sundown Express" - 6:49
"Quiet Dawn" - 7:31
"Pensativa" (Clare Fischer) - 6:28
"My Cherie Amour" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) - 4:13
"Easy Walker" (Billy Taylor) - 8:03
"I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 3:26

Personnel

Production

Don Schlitten - producer
Danfort Griffith - engineer

References

^ Prestige Records discography, accessed January 24, 2013.
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, January 24, 2013.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 202. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1462. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.

As
leader
or
co-leader

As
sideman
with
Art Blakey
& The Jazz
Messengers

Three Blind Mice (1961)
Mosaic (1961)
Buhaina's Delight (1961)
Caravan (1962)
Ugetsu (1963)
Free for All (1964)
Kyoto (1964)
Indestructible (1964)
Golden Boy (1964)
Buhaina (1973)
Anthenagin (1973)

With
Art Farmer
(or where
stated),
Benny
Golson
&
The Jazztet

Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Golson, 1960–61)
The Jazztet and John Lewis (The Jazztet, 1960–61)
Big City Sounds (The Jazztet, 1961)
The Jazztet at Birdhouse (The Jazztet, 1961)
The Time and the Place (1967)
The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits (1967)
Homecoming (1971)
Yesterday's Thoughts (1975)
To Duke with Love (1975)
The Summer Knows (1976)
Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers (1976)
Voices All (The Jazztet, 1982)

With
Eddie Harris

Cool Sax from Hollywood to Broadway (1964)
The In Sound (1965)
Mean Greens (1966)
The Tender Storm (1966)
Excursions (1966)
How Can You Live Like That? (1976)

With
Billy Higgins

Soweto (1979)
The Soldier (1979)
Once More (1980)
Bridgework (1980–86)
Billy Higgins Quintet (1993)

With
Milt Jackson

Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art (1965)
Born Free (1966)
Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet (1968)
Goodbye (1972–73)
Olinga (1974)

With
Etta James

Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday (1994)
Time After Time (1995)
12 Songs of Christmas (1998)
Blue Gardenia (2000–1)

With
Clifford
Jordan

Spellbound (1960)
Starting Time (1961)
Bearcat (1962)
These are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (1965)
Glass Bead Games (1973)
Half Note (1974)
Night of the Mark VII (aka, The Highest Mountain, Muse, 1975)
On Stage Vol. 1 (1975)
On Stage Vol. 2 (1975)
On Stage Vol. 3 (1975)
Firm Roots (1975)
The Highest Mountain (SteepleChase, 1975)

With
Blue
Mitchell

The Cup Bearers (1962)
Boss Horn (1966)
Stratosonic Nuances (1975)
Summer Soft (1977)

With
Houston
Person

Chocomotive (1967)
Trust in Me (1967)
Blue Odyssey (1968)
Broken Windows, Empty Hallways (1972)
The Big Horn (1976)
Very Personal (1980)
Naturally (2012)

With
others

God Bless Jug and Sonny (Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, 1973)
Left Bank Encores (Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, 1973)
Something for Lester (Ray Brown, 1977)
Slow Drag (Donald Byrd, 1967)
The Almoravid (Joe Chambers, 1971–73)
Somethin's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1981)
Broken Shadows (Ornette Coleman, 1971–72)
Katumbo (Dance) (Johnny Coles, 1971)
Giant Steps (John Coltrane, 1959)
Up, Up and Away (Sonny Criss, 1967)
The Beat Goes On! (Sonny Criss, 1968)
This Is the Moment! (Kenny Dorham, 1958)
Blue Spring (Kenny Dorham & Cannonball Adderley, 1959)
It's All Right! (Teddy Edwards, 1967)
Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
Smokin' (Curtis Fuller, 1972)
Tangerine (Dexter Gordon, 1972)
Generation (Dexter Gordon, 1972)
Bush Dance (Johnny Griffin, 1978)
Roots (Slide Hampton, 1985)
The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961)
Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962)
Mode for Joe (Joe Henderson, 1966)
Hub Cap (Freddie Hubbard, 1961)
Here to Stay (Freddie Hubbard, 1962)
The Body & the Soul (Freddie Hubbard,1963)
Bolivia (Freddie Hubbard, 1991)
Highway One (Bobby Hutcherson, 1978)
Farewell Keystone (Bobby Hutcherson, 1982)
Really Livin' (J.J. Johnson, 1959)
J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960)
Save Your Love for Me (Etta Jones, 1986)
Advance! (Philly Joe Jones, 1978)
Drum Song (Philly Joe Jones, 1978)
Seven Minds (Sam Jones, 1974)
Something in Common (Sam Jones, 1974–77)
First Class Kloss! (Eric Kloss, 1967)
Abbey Is Blue (Abbey Lincoln, 1959)
Strings! (Pat Martino, 1967)
From This Moment On! (Charles McPherson, 1968)
Horizons (Charles McPherson, 1968)
Caramba! (Lee Morgan, 1968)
The Sixth Sense (Lee Morgan, 1968)
The Mode (Sonny Red, 1961)
Sonny Red (1971)
Setting Standards (Woody Shaw, 1983)
For Losers (Archie Shepp, 1968–69)
Kwanza (Archie Shepp, 1968–69)
Now Is the Time (Idrees Sulieman, 1976)
Goodbye Yesterday (Lucky Thompson, 1972)
Concert: Friday the 13th – Cook County Jail (Lucky Thompson, 1972)
I Offer You (Lucky Thompson, 1973)
Another Story (Stanley Turrentine, 1969)
Up Front (David Williams, 1986)

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